"Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation."

-- William O. Douglas

#Power Quotes #Office Quotes #Desire Quotes

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”
“It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.”
“I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.”
“There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.”
“It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.”
“When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.”
“I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny. I am disturbed at my comrades' failure to rise above narrow caste interests which are alien to the interests of society at large. Yes, the theatre can play an enormous part in the transformation of the whole of existence.”

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